{"id":9702,"date":"2010-11-30T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9702"},"modified":"2015-05-25T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T03:36:11","slug":"finding-a-solution-for-a-peaceful-future-in-the-asia-pacific-region","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/finding-a-solution-for-a-peaceful-future-in-the-asia-pacific-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a solution for a peaceful future in the Asia Pacific Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fnovember-2010%2Ffinding-a-solution-for-a-peaceful-future-in-the-asia-pacific-region%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9702&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/unesco1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>TUESDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2010 11:08<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Shahfizal Musa<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBANGI, 30 Nov. 2010 \u2013 The Asia Pacific Region ever since the Second World War had faced numerous conflicts ranging from territorial and sovereignty to tensions over resources, influences, religions, ethnicity and values which the International systems had failed to address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis had brought about problems affecting human dignity in the region despite it being seen as the emerging economic power, said Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia\u2019s (UKM) Vice Chancellor, Prof Tan Sri Dato\u2019 Dr sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin when opening a Unesco-UKM conference on \u201cThe Asia Pacific Century: Challenges to Human Dignity\u201d here yesterday. Her speech read by the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences\u00a0and Humanities (FSSK), Prof. Dr. Sharifah Mastura Syed Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Sharifah Hapsah said that matters have in fact been made worse and despite modernity, the quality of human life seemed to be on the decline while failure of the international systems to arrest the problems have resulted in atrocities and abuse of human lives and mass displacement of people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe two-day conference on the theme \u201cThe Asia Pacific Century: The Challenges to Human Dignity\u201d seeks to define \u201cHuman Dignity\u201d in the eastern context to promote regional stability and peace. Over 45 papers will be presented by speakers from 16 countries\u00a0in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Sharifah Hapsah said there was a need to re evaluate what constitute human dignity. What the west deemed as human dignity my not fit into the Asia Pacific melting pot of cultural and ideological differences which are quite distinct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cI believe this conference will debate the concept of human dignity in all spheres of human activities. Greater discussions and clarifications are necessary for us in the academia to push forward the agenda of peace, humanity and dignity to the larger public and to the authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/unesco2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/unesco3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over 100 scholars, academics, stake holders and post graduate students from 16 countries are attending Conference on History, Politics, Strategic studies and Climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe conference also seeks to define \u201cHuman dignity\u201d in the eastern context. It will cover a spectrum of issues under a myriad of topics such as, <em>Human Dignity: Conflict &amp; Society<\/em>, <em>Security: Foreign Policy &amp; International Relations,<\/em> <em>Ethics, Climate Change and Resource<\/em>, <em>Regionalism &amp; Interdependencies<\/em>, <em>Gender &amp; Development<\/em> and <em>Democracies, Civil Societies and Nationalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAnother aspect that will be discussed is what constitute security. Insecurity which had always been blamed on Islamic extremists who wear turbans and keep beards have now been challenged by a more insidious threat: climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDr Darryl Macer the Regional Advisor for Social and Human Sciences in Asia Pacific UNESCO said: \u201cOur concept of human security, have been challenged through the dramatic changes in climate that are occurring and the political difficulties in reaching international consensus on practical measures to deal with the necessary adaptation and mitigation efforts required in each community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/unesco4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/unesco5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are already in place various declarations made at the International level like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which aim to protect human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMacer said \u201cThere is still a need for reflection on how to apply these covenants of history to practical measures for today and the future\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUniversal principles, he said, is based on the Monotheistic Abrahamic ideologies subscribed by Muslims, Christian and Jews.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cAmong some Eastern tradition there is a resistance to the ideas of divinely revealed universal truths and Universal principles based on human reasons. There is a need for the reflection for biocentric and ecocentric viewpoints and on wider cultural and political perspective,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe Conference is chaired by Dr Ravichandran Moorthy, a senior lecturer at the School of History, Politics and Strategy in FSSK. Chairman of the School, Prof Dr. Nordin Bin Husin is also attending.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2010 11:08 By Shahfizal Musa Pix by Saliman Leman BANGI, 30 Nov. 2010 \u2013 The Asia Pacific<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/finding-a-solution-for-a-peaceful-future-in-the-asia-pacific-region\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9703,"parent":1416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9702","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9702\/revisions\/9704"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}